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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? -- Al Sharpton
Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace. -- Dennis Kucinich
[I]f you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care. ... My staff and technicians provide it. ... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor. -- Rand Paul
Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care. -- Max Baucus
Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege. -- Peter Shumlin
There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. -- Paul Ryan
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment. -- Sandra Fluke
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. -- Paul Farmer
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education. -- Rod Blagojevich
Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom. -- Dina Titus
An 'exchange' would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options - just like federal employees and Congress do right now - and allow their employer to help pay for it. -- Andrew P. Harris
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. -- Kerry Washington
We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care. -- Tim Bishop
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. -- Andrew Weil
Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health. -- Ann McLane Kuster
As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options. -- Andrew Weil
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. -- Ami Bera
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. -- John Breaux
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here. -- Donald Berwick
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When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do. -- Michelle Obama
I believe health care is a civil right. -- Dennis Kucinich
Health care is a right, not a privilege. -- Edward Kennedy
Make health care a right, not a privilege. -- Ed Pastor
Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right. -- Julio Frenk
The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. -- Michael Moore
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care. -- Andrew Saul
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? -- Paul Farmer
We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right. -- Hillary Clinton
Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship. -- Bernie Sanders
Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate. -- Rush Limbaugh
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror. -- Alan Colmes
The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right. -- Joe Biden
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege. -- John Lewis
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period. -- Joe Biden
I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific. -- Anna Quindlen
Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right. -- Joseph Bernardin

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